Guild Wars 2

There is a summary at the bottom for the convenience of the people too busy to read the wall of text. However, if you’re going to comment, I’d recommend reading the wall.

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So, as we all know the devs are pretty busy with… everything… at the moment. However, there are a lot of players who want to get in WvW, standing in queue and wondering if they can leave the computer for a few seconds. Or go exploring, start a dungeon or start a party with guild members while waiting in the queue.

At the moment there is no way to know if you need to wait just 5 more minutes, or 5 more hours. In fact, if you forget what map you were in queue for, there seems to be no way to check that. Like if you wanted to tell your friend to come along, but have already queued for 3 hours (yes, that happens a lot) and just plain forgot what you were in queue for, there is no way to check it.

So, I know me and a dozen other players did similar suggestions during BWE’s, but here is another one:

Add /queue chat command. Since the devs are busy, making a fancy GUI section for queue information is probably taking quite long. However, lacking vital information like this increases stress and/or frustration levels, which could be easily avoided by giving the player that information. ( I cannot seem to figure out why the queue information was not shared in the first place. )

All it really needs to do is to fetch the players spot in the queue and then print it in chat, which should be pretty easy to do. Shouldn’t take no time at all to code.
It could look something like this:
/queue
"
You are in queue for:
Eternal battlegrounds, #1429
Lions Arch, #59
"

That would save a lot of time “waiting”. I know you can just go ahead and play while in queue for WvW worlds, but not knowing how much time you have left before you get in kinda spoils that for me. I usually just end up standing AFK in LA. If I knew it is going to take 3 hours, gee, I would go and play through a dungeon. Don’t want to leave midway.
Also, if I only log in to check if I can get into WvW, I would save whole lot of time by not having to hang around waiting if I can see that that aint happening.
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In short:
Add chat command for checking your current spot in queue:
/queue
print
"
You are in queue for:
Eternal Battlegrounds, #1332
Lions Arch, #32
"
Adding this should be quick solution to the total lack of queue information, while devs work on a GUI version. Its so simple that even I could code that (give that I had the GW2 source code and some documentation).

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